Safari has included Apple's iCloud Tabs feature for several years as well. Both Chrome and Firefox have included a way to send tabs between devices since 2019. Microsoft is late to adding tab sharing to Edge. To take advantage of it on a mobile device, you need to install the canary version of Edge on your phone, and it looks like Microsoft is slowly rolling it out to Windows and macOS users. As things stand, it looks like the feature is still a work in progress. On Windows, meanwhile, they'll show up in the Action Center. On Android and iOS, any links you send will appear in a prompt you can access through the notification tray.

Tapping on it will display a list of devices where you have Edge installed, and you've logged into the same Microsoft account. Once you have access to the feature, you'll see a new laptop and smartphone icon in the address bar. Following an initial test of the feature in April, it's now available on some Windows and macOS devices, as noted by Windows Latest. With tab sharing, you can start reading a webpage on your computer and then send it over to your laptop or smartphone.

It minimizes power usage by reducing resource usage (CPU usage) through modifying certain tab activity on tabs you’re not interacting with and putting inactive background tabs to sleep after 5 minutes or less.Microsoft has started rolling out the latest public release of Edge, and it includes a handy feature for those who use the browser on multiple devices. The feature may be of benefit to mobile devices but also desktop devices, as it may also improve performance.Įfficiency mode is designed to help extend battery life. Microsoft notes that the benefits vary as they depend on factors such as the device that is used, the number of tabs that are open and other factors.

Once turned on, Edge will put tabs that have been inactive for 5 minutes to sleep to free up system resources. On Linux, efficiency mode is turned off by default. On Mac OS X devices, efficiency mode activates itself automatically if the power state of the battery reaches 20%. A blue pulse icon in Microsoft Edge's toolbar indicates that. Microsoft states on a support page that efficiency mode may be enabled automatically if a mobile device enters battery saver mode on Windows. Efficiency mode may be set to on or off, the default appears to be off in most configurations.

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